The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-03-17
THE EDITORS DESK.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE.


have obtained perpetual injunction
against the Franklin Square Library Co,
from using their ira lie mark Franklin
Square Library" in connection with their
business.
The Chambersburg, Pa, Daily Regis
ter, in noting the fact that there has been
check in the tide of emigration to the
West from that section, mentions that
several persons from Franklin county and
a colony from Cumberland county have
recently purchased homes in North Caro-
lima Others have recently gone to Ala
bama and Florida. 1t is just such popula
ton that the South is glad to welcome.
The inducements here are unequaled by
any the West can offer, and there are no
hard,hips to be encountered. Young man,
come South
If President Cleveland started to do a
certain thing, he'd do it or die. When he
came into office, he found Fred Douglass,
who had married white wife, Register
of Deeds for the District of Columbia.
He removed him and appointed another
negro, Matthews, in his place. The Re
publ an Senate refused to confirm him
Notwithstanding their professed love for
the negro Mr.. Cleveland reappointed
Matthew's The Senate would mt confirm.
He then appointed a negro name Trotter
and after filibustering, the Senate has con
firmed him. In this whole transaction
the President has put the Republican
Senators in position where they will find
ii difficult to explain themselves to their
Yankee constituents, but in doing so he
has given offence to the South
1t might appear from the report IN last
weeks CHRONICLE on the debate in the
S nate on Mr.. Adams amendment to de-
crease the appropriation to the Peniten-
tiary in order that the labor of the convicts
should pay part of their expenses (Const.
Art. II. Sec. ~, that Senator Pou, of
Johnston, voted against the amendment.
The contrary IS true. On that amend
ment Mr. Pou voted with Mr. Adams, and
explaining his vote said he had just Sc
cured fifty convicts free of charge for
Johnston county, but believed that the
Constitution intended that the Penlten-
tiary should be self supporting. He said
he thought the policy of the State in Civ
ing away convicts all wrong and that if
all We're made to pay, the relief to the tax
PAYERS would be great. He said this
ought to be done and to get upon such a
10 y oh rc,,lI ba r
convicts secured for Johnston county.
The vote was 19 to 90 During the session
Mr. Pou voted against every proposition
to give convicts to corporations.
The Thackeray letters which are to ap
pear in Scribner's Magazine were written
chiefly to Mrs Brookfeld, who is still liv-
ing in London, and her husband, the late
Rev W. II. Brookteld. Mr.. Brookfield
was clergyman of the church of Eng
land, distinguished preacher, Chaplain
inOrdinary to the Queen, and one of Her
Maiestys Inspectors of Schools. He was
especially favored in his literary friend
ships When at Cambridge he was the
intimate associate of Arthur Hallam and
Tennyson, and it was at Mr.. Brookfeld's
death, in memory of these days, that the
Laureate wrote the sonnet beginning:
Brooks, for they call'd you so that knew
you best,
Old Brooks, who loved so well to mouth my
rhymes.
How Of. we two have heard ST. Mary chimes!
How oft the Cantab supper, host and guest,
Would echo helpless laughter to your jest -
In later years his friends included many
names famous in the ranks of literature
Carlyle, Kinglake, Lord Houghton, and
many others were among the number
and, as these letters show, he was on
terms of the closest intimacy with Thack
cray. Miss Thackeray Mrs. Ritchie) wrote
to Lord Lyttelton that Mr.. Brookfield was
the Frank Whitestock' of her father
sketch, The Curates Walk"
THE RECORD TELLS THE TRUTH. :.
Webster was in the chair, and ruled ac-
cordng to urgent Democratic party ne
cessty. He pounded hole through the
Speakers desk big enough to stick his
gold headed cane in. Clerk Bulla was or
dered to make an entry in the journal so
it would read as though report of the
election of magistrates had been received,
and then the farce ended. Instead of
speaking the truth the journal was made
to tell falsehoOd about the election of
magistrates. This was necessary to cheat
the people, Extract from North State
Rep. Organ
We do not think it necessary to repub-
lish all of what appeared in the report re-
lating to the election of Magistrates of
that part of the Legislative proceedings in
the last CHRONICLE to show that the above
paragraph from the disappointed Republi-
can Organ does not correspond with the
Facts. We merely re-publish the facts
90 show that the report of the tellers on
the election of magistrates was received
and to keep it before the people that the
North State is up to the old Republican
habit of misrepresenting facts in order to
make party capital. Speaker Webster
ruled righteously-as an honest man he
could have made no other ruling. He did
not rule according to urgent Democratic
party necessity Saturday night, in the
House as our last weeks report will show,
Mr. Doughton presented the report of
the tellers as to the election of Magistrates,
and sent il to the Clerks desk AS THE RE-